{"id":102505,"date":"2020-02-18T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/spacex-signs-deal-to-fly-4-space-tourists-around-earth-in-about-two-years"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:49:58","slug":"spacex-signs-deal-to-fly-4-space-tourists-around-earth-in-about-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/spacex-signs-deal-to-fly-4-space-tourists-around-earth-in-about-two-years","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX signs deal to fly 4 space tourists around Earth in about two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-signs-deal-to-fly-4-space-tourists-around-earth-in-about-two-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will fly four privately-paying space tourists to orbit in its Crew Dragon capsule, the company unveiled on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis historic mission will forge a path to making spaceflight possible for all people who dream of it, and we are pleased to work with the Space Adventures\u2019 team on the mission,\u201d SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The customers will be brokered through Space Adventures, a company that\u2019s flown private citizens to the International Space Station using Russian spacecraft. The firm said this Crew Dragon mission will allow four individuals to \u201csee planet Earth the way no one has since the Gemini program\u201d of the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX will fly four privately-paying space tourists to orbit in its Crew Dragon capsule, the company unveiled on Tuesday. \u201cThis historic mission will forge a path to making spaceflight possible for all people who dream of it, and we are pleased to work with the Space Adventures\u2019 team on the mission,\u201d SpaceX president and COO [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}